1438

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1435 1436 1437 – 1438 – 1439 1440 1441

1438 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1438 in poetry

1438 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1438 MCDXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2191
Armenian calendar	887 ԹՎ ՊՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	6188
Bengali calendar	845
Berber calendar	2388
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 6 – 17 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1982
Burmese calendar	800
Byzantine calendar	6946–6947
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4134 or 4074     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4135 or 4075
Coptic calendar	1154–1155
Discordian calendar	2604
Ethiopian calendar	1430–1431
Hebrew calendar	5198–5199
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1494–1495
- Shaka Samvat	1360–1361
- Kali Yuga	4539–4540
Holocene calendar	11438
Igbo calendar	438–439
Iranian calendar	816–817
Islamic calendar	841–842
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 10 (永享１０年)
Julian calendar	1438 MCDXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3771
Minguo calendar	474 before ROC 民前474年
Thai solar calendar	1980–1981

Year 1438 (MCDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 1 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary.
• March 18 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany.
• July 7 – Charles VII of France issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, giving the French church control over the appointment of bishops and depriving the Pope of French ecclesiastical revenues.
• September 13 – Afonso V becomes King of Portugal.
• October – Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, loses direct control of Sweden as Karl Knutsson Bonde is elected Regent of Sweden.

Date unknown

• Council of Florence is moved to Ferrara.
• Pachacuti (who will later create Tahuantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire) becomes the ruler of Cuzco.
• In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
• Just two years before the Ming Dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines and to ban all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. This is a concerted effort to halt the increase of silver circulating into the market. Illegally mining silver is now an offense punishable by death; although illegal mining became a dangerous affair, the high demand for illegal mining also made it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continued to mine silver.
• All Souls College, University of Oxford is founded.

Births

• February 5
  • Margaret of Bourbon, French noble (d. 1483)
  • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1497)
• February 12 – Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (d. 1477)
• March 23 – Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo, Italian noble (d. 1504)
• April 3 – John III of Egmont, Dutch noble (d. 1516)
• September 7 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (1458–1471) (d. 1471)
• December 1 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503)
• date unknown – Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (d. 1506)
• probable – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English nobleman and military commander during the Wars of the Roses (d. 1471)

Deaths

• April 24 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (b. 1429)
• September 13 – King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
• October 16 – Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)
• October 20 – Jacopo della Quercia, Sienese sculptor (b. c. 1374)

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